writing

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• homophone: riding (some varieties with flapping)
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From Middle English writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng, from Old English wrīting (“writing”), equivalent to write + -ing.

From Middle English writinge, wrytynge, writende, writand, from Old English wrītende, present participle of Old English wrītan (“to scratch, carve, write”), equivalent to write + -ing.

309 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: skryfwerk — written letters or symbols
• Albanian: shkrim — written letters or symbols
• Amharic: መጻፍ (mäṣaf) — written letters or symbols
• Arabic: كِتَابَة (kitāba) — written letters or symbols
• Arabic: كتابة (ketāba) — written letters or symbols
• Aramaic: כתבא (ktābā, ktobo) — written letters or symbols
• Aramaic: ܟܬܒܐ (ktābā, ktobo) — written letters or symbols
• Armenian: գիր (gir) — written letters or symbols
• Armenian: գրելը (grelə) — written letters or symbols
• Armenian: գրություն (grutʻyun) — written letters or symbols
• Aromanian: scriari — written letters or symbols
• Aromanian: scriiturã — written letters or symbols
• Azerbaijani: yazı — written letters or symbols
• Bashkir: яҙма (yaźma) — written letters or symbols
• Basque: idazketa — written letters or symbols
• Belarusian: пісьмо́ (pisʹmó) — written letters or symbols
• Belarusian: пі́сьменнасць (písʹmjennascʹ) — written letters or symbols
• Bengali: লিখন (likhon) — written letters or symbols
• Breton: skritur — written letters or symbols
• Bulgarian: пи́сане (písane) — written letters or symbols
• Bulgarian: пи́сменост (písmenost) — written letters or symbols
• Burmese: အရေးအသား (a.re:a.sa:) — written letters or symbols
• Catalan: escriptura — written letters or symbols
• Chechen: йаздар (jazdar) — written letters or symbols
• Chinese Mandarin: 文字 (wénzì) — written letters or symbols
• Czech: písmo — written letters or symbols
• Danish: skrift — written letters or symbols
• Dutch: schrift — written letters or symbols
• Dutch: schrijfsel — written letters or symbols
• Dutch: geschrift — written letters or symbols
• Egyptian: Y3-Y1V (zẖꜣ) — written letters or symbols
• Esperanto: skribo — written letters or symbols
• Estonian: kiri — written letters or symbols
• Extremaduran: escreviúra — written letters or symbols
• Finnish: kirjoitus — written letters or symbols
• French: écriture — written letters or symbols
• Friulian: scriture — written letters or symbols
• Galician: escrita — written letters or symbols
• Georgian: წერა (c̣era) — written letters or symbols
• German: Schrift — written letters or symbols
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌻 (mēl) — written letters or symbols
• Greek: γραφή (grafí) — written letters or symbols
• Ancient Greek: γραφή (graphḗ) — written letters or symbols
• Hebrew: כְּתִיבָה (ktivá) — written letters or symbols
• Hindi: लेखन (lekhan) — written letters or symbols
• Hindi: लिखाई (likhāī) — written letters or symbols
• Hungarian: írás — written letters or symbols
• Icelandic: skrift — written letters or symbols
• Ido: skribado — written letters or symbols
• Indonesian: tulisan — written letters or symbols
• Irish: scríbhneoireacht — written letters or symbols
• Italian: scrittura — written letters or symbols
• Japanese: 筆記 (hikki) — written letters or symbols
• Japanese: 文字 — written letters or symbols
• Kannada: ಬರವಣಿಗೆ (baravaṇige) — written letters or symbols
• Kapampangan: pamagsulat — written letters or symbols
• Kapampangan: pamanyulat — written letters or symbols
• Kazakh: жазу (jazu) — written letters or symbols
• Khmer: ការសរសេរ (kaa sɑɑsɑsee) — written letters or symbols
• Korean: 쓰기 (sseugi) — written letters or symbols
• Korean: 문자 (munja) — written letters or symbols
• Central Kurdish: نوسین (nusîn) — written letters or symbols
• Kyrgyz: жазуу (jazuu) — written letters or symbols
• Lao: ການຂຽນ (kān khīan) — written letters or symbols
• Latin: scriptum — written letters or symbols
• Latin: codex — written letters or symbols
• Latin: caudex — written letters or symbols
• Latvian: rakstīšana — written letters or symbols
• Lithuanian: rašymas — written letters or symbols
• Luxembourgish: Schrëft — written letters or symbols
• Macedonian: пишување (pišuvanje) — written letters or symbols
• Malay: tulisan — written letters or symbols
• Malay: penulisan — written letters or symbols
• Malayalam: എഴുത്ത് (eḻuttŭ) — written letters or symbols
• Maltese: kitba — written letters or symbols
• Marathi: लेखन (lekhan) — written letters or symbols
• Central Sierra Miwok: sykýˀ-ja- — written letters or symbols
• Mongolian: бичиг (bičig) — written letters or symbols
• Norman: êcrituthe — written letters or symbols
• Norwegian Bokmål: skrift — written letters or symbols
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skrift — written letters or symbols
• Dari: نَوِشْتَه (nawišta) — written letters or symbols
• Iranian Persian: نِوِشْتِه (nevešte) — written letters or symbols
• Plautdietsch: Schreft — written letters or symbols
• Polish: pismo — written letters or symbols
• Portuguese: escrita — written letters or symbols
• Punjabi: ਲਿਖਾਈ (likhāī) — written letters or symbols
• Quechua: qillqa — written letters or symbols
• Romanian: scriere — written letters or symbols
• Russian: пи́сьменность (písʹmennostʹ) — written letters or symbols
• Russian: письмо́ (pisʹmó) — written letters or symbols
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhadh — written letters or symbols
• Serbo-Croatian: писање — written letters or symbols
• Serbo-Croatian: pisanje — written letters or symbols
• Slovak: písmo — written letters or symbols
• Slovak: písanie — written letters or symbols
• Slovene: pisava — written letters or symbols
• Spanish: escritura — written letters or symbols
• Spanish: escriptura — written letters or symbols
• Swahili: andiko — written letters or symbols
• Swedish: skrivkonst — written letters or symbols
• Swedish: skrift — written letters or symbols
• Tamil: எழுத்து (eḻuttu) — written letters or symbols
• Tamil: எழுதுதல் (eḻututal) — written letters or symbols
• Telugu: రాత (rāta) — written letters or symbols
• Thai: การเขียน (gaan-kǐian) — written letters or symbols
• Tuoba: 地何 — written letters or symbols
• Turkish: yazı — written letters or symbols
• Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı) — written letters or symbols
• Ottoman Turkish: سواد (sevâd) — written letters or symbols
• Ukrainian: писе́мність (pysémnistʹ) — written letters or symbols
• Ukrainian: письмо́ (pysʹmó) — written letters or symbols
• Urdu: لیکَھن (lekhan) — written letters or symbols
• Uyghur: يېزىق (yëziq) — written letters or symbols
• Uzbek: yozuv — written letters or symbols
• Vietnamese: chữ viết — written letters or symbols
• Welsh: ysgrifen — written letters or symbols
• Yiddish: שריפֿט (shrift) — written letters or symbols
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib — written letters or symbols
• Acehnese: teunuléh — something written
• Albanian: shkrim — something written
• Arabic: كِتَابَة (kitāba) — something written
• Arabic: كتابة (ketāba) — something written
• Aramaic: כתבא (ktābā, ktobo) — something written
• Aramaic: ܟܬܒܐ (ktābā, ktobo) — something written
• Armenian: գրություն (grutʻyun) — something written
• Aromanian: scriari — something written
• Aromanian: scriiturã — something written
• Bashkir: яҙма (yaźma) — something written
• Bulgarian: писа́ние (pisánie) — something written
• Bulgarian: на́дпис (nádpis) — something written
• Czech: spis — something written
• Dutch: schrijfsel — something written
• Dutch: geschrift — something written
• Esperanto: skribaĵo — something written
• Estonian: kirjutis — something written
• Finnish: kirjoitus — something written
• French: écrit — something written
• Friulian: scriture — something written
• German: Schrift — something written
• German: Schriftstück — something written
• Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka) — something written
• Greek: γραπτό (graptó) — something written
• Greek: έγγραφο (éngrafo) — something written
• Ancient Greek: γραφή (graphḗ) — something written
• Ancient Greek: δέλτος (déltos) — something written
• Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים (ktuvím) — something written
• Hindi: लिखित (likhit) — something written
• Hindi: लेख (lekh) — something written
• Hungarian: írás — something written
• Indonesian: tulisan — something written
• Latin: scriptum — something written
• Malay: tulisan — something written
• Marathi: लेखन (lekhan) — something written
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠮᠡᠯ (bičimel) — something written
• Mongolian: бичмэл (bičmel) — something written
• Norman: êcrithie — something written
• Plautdietsch: Schreft — something written
• Polish: napis — something written
• Polish: pismo — something written
• Portuguese: escrita — something written
• Romanian: scriere — something written
• Romanian: scriitură — something written
• Russian: писа́ние (pisánije) — something written
• Russian: за́пись (zápisʹ) — something written
• Russian: на́дпись (nádpisʹ) — something written
• Slovene: zapis — something written
• Spanish: escrito — something written
• Spanish: escritura — something written
• Spanish: escripto — something written
• Spanish: escriptura — something written
• Swahili: maandiko — something written
• Turkish: yazı — something written
• Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı) — something written
• Ottoman Turkish: سواد (sevâd) — something written
• Ukrainian: писа́ння (pysánnja) — something written
• Welsh: ysgrif — something written
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib — something written
• Arabic: كِتَابَة (kitāba) — process of representing a language
• Azerbaijani: yazı — process of representing a language
• Bashkir: яҙыу (yaźıw) — process of representing a language
• Belarusian: піса́нне (pisánnje) — process of representing a language
• Belarusian: піса́ньне (pisánʹnje) — process of representing a language
• Belarusian: пісьмо́ (pisʹmó) — process of representing a language
• Bulgarian: пи́сане (písane) — process of representing a language
• Chichewa: kulémba — process of representing a language
• Chinese Mandarin: 寫作 /写作 (xiězuò) — process of representing a language
• Czech: psaní — process of representing a language
• Dutch: geschrijf — process of representing a language
• Dutch: schrijven — process of representing a language
• Estonian: kirjutamine — process of representing a language
• Finnish: kirjoittaminen — process of representing a language
• French: écriture — process of representing a language
• German: Schreiben — process of representing a language
• German: Schrift — process of representing a language
• Greek: γραφή (grafí) — process of representing a language
• Hebrew: כְּתִיבָה (ktivá) — process of representing a language
• Hindi: लेख (lekh) — process of representing a language
• Hungarian: írás — process of representing a language
• Indonesian: penulisan — process of representing a language
• Indonesian: kepenulisan — process of representing a language
• Interlingua: scriptura — process of representing a language
• Japanese: 書くこと (kaku koto) — process of representing a language
• Japanese: ライティング (raitingu) — process of representing a language
• Japanese: 執筆 (shippitsu) — process of representing a language
• Kazakh: жазу (jazu) — process of representing a language
• Korean: 쓰기 (sseugi) — process of representing a language
• Korean: 적기 (jeokgi) — process of representing a language
• Korean: 집필 (jip'pil) — process of representing a language
• Kyrgyz: жазуу (jazuu) — process of representing a language
• Ladino: eskritura — process of representing a language
• Latin: scriptūra — process of representing a language
• Luganda: okuwandiika — process of representing a language
• Macedonian: пишување (pišuvanje) — process of representing a language
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯᠭᠡ (bičilge) — process of representing a language
• Mongolian: бичлэг (bičleg) — process of representing a language
• Norman: êcrituthe — process of representing a language
• Dari: نَوِیسَنْدَگِی (nawīsandagī) — process of representing a language
• Iranian Persian: نِویسَنْدِگی (nevisandegi) — process of representing a language
• Polish: pisanie — process of representing a language
• Portuguese: escrita — process of representing a language
• Romanian: scris — process of representing a language
• Russian: писа́ние (pisánije) — process of representing a language
• Russian: письмо́ (pisʹmó) — process of representing a language
• Slovak: písanie — process of representing a language
• Slovene: pisanje — process of representing a language
• Spanish: escritura — process of representing a language
• Spanish: escriptura — process of representing a language
• Swahili: maandiko — process of representing a language
• Swahili: uandikaji — process of representing a language
• Tagalog: panulatan — process of representing a language
• Tajik: нависандагӣ (navisandagi) — process of representing a language
• Turkish: yazı — process of representing a language
• Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı) — process of representing a language
• Ottoman Turkish: سواد (sevâd) — process of representing a language
• Turkmen: ýazuw — process of representing a language
• Ukrainian: письмо́ (pysʹmó) — process of representing a language
• Ukrainian: писа́ння (pysánnja) — process of representing a language
• Uzbek: yozuv — process of representing a language
• Võro: kirotaminõ — process of representing a language
• Albanian: vepër — work of an author
• Bashkir: әҫәр (əśər) — work of an author
• Belarusian: твор (tvor) — work of an author
• Bulgarian: произведе́ние (proizvedénie) — work of an author
• Bulgarian: труд (trud) — work of an author
• Chinese Mandarin: 寫作 /写作 (xiězuò) — work of an author
• Chinese Mandarin: 著作 (zhùzuò) — work of an author
• Czech: spis — work of an author
• Dutch: schrijfsel — work of an author
• Dutch: werk — work of an author
• Dutch: oeuvre — work of an author
• Estonian: kirjutis — work of an author
• Estonian: kirjatöö — work of an author
• Estonian: teos — work of an author
• Finnish: kirjoitus — work of an author
• Finnish: teos — work of an author
• French: œuvre — work of an author
• German: Schrift — work of an author
• German: Arbeit — work of an author
• German: Werk — work of an author
• Greek: έργο (érgo) — work of an author
• Hindi: रचना (racnā) — work of an author
• Hindi: लेख (lekh) — work of an author
• Indonesian: tulisan — work of an author
• Indonesian: karangan — work of an author
• Japanese: 著作 (chosaku) — work of an author
• Korean: 저작 (jeojak) — work of an author
• Central Kurdish: نوسین (nusîn) — work of an author
• Polish: utwór — work of an author
• Polish: dzieło — work of an author
• Portuguese: obra — work of an author
• Russian: произведе́ние (proizvedénije) — work of an author
• Spanish: escrito — work of an author
• Spanish: escritura — work of an author
• Spanish: escripto — work of an author
• Spanish: escriptura — work of an author
• Swahili: maandiko — work of an author
• Telugu: రచన (racana) — work of an author
• Telugu: రచనలు (racanalu) — work of an author
• Turkish: yazı — work of an author
• Ukrainian: твір (tvir) — work of an author
• Arabic: كتبة — style of writing
• Bashkir: яҙыу (yaźıw) — style of writing
• Bashkir: ҡул (qul) — style of writing
• Bulgarian: по́черк (póčerk) — style of writing
• Finnish: käsiala — style of writing
• Greek: γραφή (grafí) — style of writing
• Hebrew: כְּתָב (ktav) — style of writing
• Hindi: शैली (śailī) — style of writing
• Hindi: लेखन (lekhan) — style of writing
• Indonesian: tulisan — style of writing
• Italian: scrittura — style of writing
• Luganda: empandiika — style of writing
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯᠭᠡ (bičilge) — style of writing
• Mongolian: бичлэг (bičleg) — style of writing
• Portuguese: letra — style of writing
• Russian: по́черк (póčerk) — style of writing
• Swahili: maandiko — style of writing
• Tagalog: panulatan — style of writing
• Turkish: yazı — style of writing
• Ukrainian: по́черк (póčerk) — style of writing
• Dutch: schrijf- — made for or used in writing
• Estonian: kirjutus- — made for or used in writing
• Finnish: kirjoitus- — made for or used in writing
• German: Schrift- — made for or used in writing
• Greek: γραφο- (grafo-) — made for or used in writing
• Swahili: maandiko — made for or used in writing
• Turkish: yazmalık — made for or used in writing
• Ottoman Turkish: یازمەلق (yazmalık) — made for or used in writing